I've just replaced my old router with a Belkin Pre-N ADSL. I had a lot
of difficulty in getting the wireless cards to connect. Eventually, I
changed the router's IP address from 192.168.2.1 back to 192.168.1.1
(corresponding changes were correctly made to the cards and firewalls)
and I changed the router's name from "Belkin Pre-N_ADSL" to "Belkin".
Then everything connected. I'm reporting this in case it might help
anyone else having a similar problem, but I'm curious to know whether
this was just a coincidence or whether the protocol doesn't like
punctuation and/or spaces ?

It takes maybe 10 seconds for the router to accept configuration
changes. Is that normal ?

I've disabled SSID broadcast in the router and yet NetStumbler on
another computer is still naming the link. A bug ?

The furthest wireless card (not Pre-N) is about 20 metres away along a
corridor. I was hoping to see a major improvement in reception, but
it's still reported as only two bars ("poor"). I've read in reviews
(but not in Belkin's documentation) that the card also needs to be
Pre-N. But shouldn't I be getting *some* improvement ?

Comments please

10-03-2007, 08:26 PM

unix

Re: Belkin Pre-N_ADSL problems

I don't have any ideas on the first problem.

10 seconds for a config acception is normal

Netstumbler also detects default SSID

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> I've just replaced my old router with a Belkin Pre-N ADSL. I had a lot
> of difficulty in getting the wireless cards to connect. Eventually, I
> changed the router's IP address from 192.168.2.1 back to 192.168.1.1
> (corresponding changes were correctly made to the cards and firewalls)
> and I changed the router's name from "Belkin Pre-N_ADSL" to "Belkin".
> Then everything connected. I'm reporting this in case it might help
> anyone else having a similar problem, but I'm curious to know whether
> this was just a coincidence or whether the protocol doesn't like
> punctuation and/or spaces ?
>
> It takes maybe 10 seconds for the router to accept configuration
> changes. Is that normal ?
>
> I've disabled SSID broadcast in the router and yet NetStumbler on
> another computer is still naming the link. A bug ?
>
> The furthest wireless card (not Pre-N) is about 20 metres away along a
> corridor. I was hoping to see a major improvement in reception, but
> it's still reported as only two bars ("poor"). I've read in reviews
> (but not in Belkin's documentation) that the card also needs to be
> Pre-N. But shouldn't I be getting *some* improvement ?
>
> Comments please
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